Fun video. I went down a similar rabbit hole with an Extreme Networks E1120 Cloud Appliance. The motherboard was also made by Lanner. I was able to get an output and currently have OPNsense running on it. I reached out to Lanner to see about getting a BIOS update for the board... when they asked for a picture of the serial # I knew my hopes were dashed. They replied that due to a non disclosure agreement they were unable to provide any updates, manuals, or information.
@ I was too. If I recall correctly I got one of those chat squares while browsing their site. I replied that I was looking for a firmware update but the chat wasn't a chat and it went to a zoho email. That got forwarded on as a "support request from the USA"
There is a lot that type of content in RUclips and not that much something like this. Maybe you could check those other channels if you like that type of content.
Interesting how that board is covered in chips from companies that hate each other. (and marvel is now owned by nvidia, so even more reason to hate them) Just because it's a SAS connector doesn't necessarily mean they're running SAS over it.
Yea I thought the same thing, but on the other side it has a SAS controller hooked up to it. The PC side board is a more generic OEM capably board. I have another bigger Palo as well to take apart so I'll check and see what that one has!
@@jeffsponaugle6339 Weird. WAY back in the day, there were loads of things one could attach via SCSI - the next cube's printer, for example. For a brief period, there were ATAPI (SCSI over an IDE cable) floppy drives. (LS120 looks like a hard drive) I've not seen anything but storage systems (disk and tape) using SCSI, and now SAS, for many years. Scott Bork (yes) wrote an IP stack for SCSI decades ago. [for the adaptec 1542] And FC supported IP-over-FC for a long time - it's been removed from pretty much everything these days.
Yea, it is pretty flexible! - I remember IBM having some interesting devices on a SCSI bus. Oh the Adaptec 1542 is such a classic. I have one in one of those ATs in my background!
Reverse Engineering FTW! Thanks for the cool and interesting content Jeff!
Fun video. I went down a similar rabbit hole with an Extreme Networks E1120 Cloud Appliance. The motherboard was also made by Lanner. I was able to get an output and currently have OPNsense running on it.
I reached out to Lanner to see about getting a BIOS update for the board... when they asked for a picture of the serial # I knew my hopes were dashed. They replied that due to a non disclosure agreement they were unable to provide any updates, manuals, or information.
Ah yea, I figure most of those boards are sold to OEMs for uses like this. Cool that you got it running OPNsense.
Well, never mind, let's wait until the data from Lanner "leaks" :)
Surprised Lanner was even talk to you as you aren't a customer.
@ I was too. If I recall correctly I got one of those chat squares while browsing their site. I replied that I was looking for a firmware update but the chat wasn't a chat and it went to a zoho email. That got forwarded on as a "support request from the USA"
I've had great success repurposing the red Watchguard firewall with pfsense. 🤓 T50 I think it was.
Just replaced the mSATA and viola.
It could be fun if you did some budget home lab builds. Something with a NAS, Plex (or alternative), home assistant, etc.
There is a lot that type of content in RUclips and not that much something like this. Maybe you could check those other channels if you like that type of content.
Could we get an update on the Integra project?
i would try to use the network interfaces
Interesting how that board is covered in chips from companies that hate each other. (and marvel is now owned by nvidia, so even more reason to hate them) Just because it's a SAS connector doesn't necessarily mean they're running SAS over it.
Yea I thought the same thing, but on the other side it has a SAS controller hooked up to it. The PC side board is a more generic OEM capably board. I have another bigger Palo as well to take apart so I'll check and see what that one has!
@@jeffsponaugle6339 Weird. WAY back in the day, there were loads of things one could attach via SCSI - the next cube's printer, for example. For a brief period, there were ATAPI (SCSI over an IDE cable) floppy drives. (LS120 looks like a hard drive) I've not seen anything but storage systems (disk and tape) using SCSI, and now SAS, for many years.
Scott Bork (yes) wrote an IP stack for SCSI decades ago. [for the adaptec 1542] And FC supported IP-over-FC for a long time - it's been removed from pretty much everything these days.
@@jeffsponaugle6339 Ouuh, would love to see a teardown on the bigger palo alto device, which model is it!?
Yea, it is pretty flexible! - I remember IBM having some interesting devices on a SCSI bus. Oh the Adaptec 1542 is such a classic. I have one in one of those ATs in my background!
Try running Linux and FreeBSD :)